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Hands-On Machine Learning with ML.NET

By : Jarred Capellman
Book Image

Hands-On Machine Learning with ML.NET

By: Jarred Capellman

Overview of this book

Machine learning (ML) is widely used in many industries such as science, healthcare, and research and its popularity is only growing. In March 2018, Microsoft introduced ML.NET to help .NET enthusiasts in working with ML. With this book, you’ll explore how to build ML.NET applications with the various ML models available using C# code. The book starts by giving you an overview of ML and the types of ML algorithms used, along with covering what ML.NET is and why you need it to build ML apps. You’ll then explore the ML.NET framework, its components, and APIs. The book will serve as a practical guide to helping you build smart apps using the ML.NET library. You’ll gradually become well versed in how to implement ML algorithms such as regression, classification, and clustering with real-world examples and datasets. Each chapter will cover the practical implementation, showing you how to implement ML within .NET applications. You’ll also learn to integrate TensorFlow in ML.NET applications. Later you’ll discover how to store the regression model housing price prediction result to the database and display the real-time predicted results from the database on your web application using ASP.NET Core Blazor and SignalR. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to confidently perform basic to advanced-level machine learning tasks in ML.NET.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Fundamentals of Machine Learning and ML.NET
4
Section 2: ML.NET Models
10
Section 3: Real-World Integrations with ML.NET
14
Section 4: Extending ML.NET

Breaking down anomaly detection

As mentioned in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Machine Learning and ML.NET, anomaly detection, by definition, is an unsupervised learning algorithm. This means that the algorithm will train on data and look for data that does not fit the normal data. In this section, we will dive into use cases for anomaly detection and into the various trainers available for anomaly detection in ML.NET.

Use cases for anomaly detection

Anomaly detection, as you might have realized already, has numerous applications where data is available but it is unknown whether there is an anomaly in the data. Without needing to do manual spot-checking, anomaly detection algorithms train on this data and determine whether there are any anomalies. ML.NET provides various anomaly detection values to look at programmatically inside of your application. We will review these values later on in this chapter to better ensure that any detection is not a false positive.

Some of the potential...